Lead Software Engineer

Embark on a transformative journey as a Lead Software Engineer  vision is clear: to design, develop, and continuously improve software that delivers robust business, platform, and technology capabilities for our customers and colleagues. You will play a key role in shaping modern engineering practices and driving innovation across our platforms.

To be successful as a Lead Software Engineer, you should have experience with:

• Being a highly skilled software engineer with strong knowledge of modern architectures and hands‑on experience with containerisation.
• Good understanding of GenAI and agentic AI frameworks, including Lang Graph and CrewAI.
• Demonstrated commercial experience creating AI solutions, from ideation through delivery.
• Practical commercial experience with AWS and/or Azure, including the use of Infrastructure‑as‑Code (IaC) tooling and patterns.
• AWS or Azure certifications that validate your cloud engineering expertise.
• Ability to innovate, challenge convention, and bring new thinking to complex engineering problems.

• Proficiency in Python and Java.
• Familiarity with AWS Bedrock and associated AI/ML services.
• Ability to solve multi‑layered, ambiguous problems with minimal support.
• Strong engineering judgement, with a focus on secure, scalable, and maintainable solutions.

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking, and digital and technology, as well as job‑specific technical skills.

The location of your role is Knutsford.

To design, develop and improve software, utilising various engineering methodologies, that provides business, platform, and technology capabilities for our customers and colleagues.

• Development and delivery of high‑quality software solutions by using industry‑aligned programming languages, frameworks, and tools. Ensuring that code is scalable, maintainable, and optimised for performance.
• Cross‑functional collaboration with product managers, designers, and other engineers to define software requirements, devise solution strategies, and ensure seamless integration and alignment with business objectives.
• Collaboration with peers, participate in code reviews, and promote a culture of code quality and knowledge sharing.
• Stay informed of industry technology trends and innovations and actively contribute to the organisation’s technology communities to foster a culture of technical excellence and growth.
• Adherence to secure coding practices to mitigate vulnerabilities, protect sensitive data, and ensure secure software solutions.
• Implementation of effective unit testing practices to ensure proper code design, readability, and reliability.

• Contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change. Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/processes; deliver continuous improvements and escalates breaches of policies/procedures.
• If managing a team, define jobs and responsibilities, plan for the department’s future needs and operations, counsel employees on performance and contribute to employee pay decisions/changes. Lead specialists to influence the operations of a department, balancing short‑ and long‑term goals and ensuring budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements.
• Demonstrate clear leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver consistently excellent standards. The four LEAD behaviours are:
  Listen and be authentic, Energise and inspire, Align across the enterprise, Develop others.
• As an individual contributor, become a subject‑matter expert within own discipline and guide technical direction. Lead collaborative, multi‑year assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identifying the need for inclusion of other specialisations to complete assignments. Train and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long‑term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions.
• Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and…